[Gud]

Frankly, as an avid AoE 2(now DE) player, I wish they hadn’t.

AoE2 is slowly losing its uniqueness with each update.

The new matchmaking sucks, can no longer select which map to play on ranked, pathing is broken in new ways.

Don’t get me wrong, the new civilisations are nice, just kind of hoped they wouldn’t have done a total revamp.

[patates]

It feels like the movement in the community is also slowing down. One of the most popular streamers T90 for example, has had less and less views through the last years, a reversal of a long trend upwards.

They also added easier ways to do things which were giving competitive edge to the players who could efficiently do them the hard-way, perhaps reducing the motivation to train further for the top players (why train to do hard tricks if they could be automated by the game later).

[unethical_ban]

DE?

I didn't know AoE2 was getting content updates or balancing. I thought it was the same game, locked in. I notice aoe4 has seasons and rebalancing... Not sure how to feel about it.

[Gud]

Some of the new civs are amazing. Two of my favourite civs are Lithuanians and Romans.

I can also tell you, since there is a whole new generation of gamers out there who have practiced countless hours of various games, the game play and what is a n00b has dramatically changed. Plus us old timers are really good as well.